Brenda Blethyn’s unpolished but effective DCI Vera Stanhope returned to solve the murder of a local GP REVIEW: ⭐ ⭐ ⭐
’s legions of fans will be pressing record or catching up on the shiny new ITVX hub for this run of six episodes, which are slightly confusingly categorised as the final two from series 11 and four episodes from series 12. Not that any of this will particularly matter to loyal viewers, hooked since it began in 2011, who will just be thrilled to have Brenda Blethyn’s unpolished but effective DCI Vera Stanhope back on screen.
In tonight’s instalment, when Lucy Yo, a local GP, was found dead in a burnt-out car in a remote quarry, it didn’t take long for several possible explanations to rear their heads. The out-of-hours patient she had apparently been visiting didn’t exist; she had been the subject of a recent abuse campaign relating to the death of an elderly woman; she was having an affair with one of her colleagues and co-operating with an NHS investigation into prescription pad fraud at her surgery. Poor old Vera and her team were almost overwhelmed by motives.
Blethyn knows exactly what she’s doing as Vera – no-nonsense, always suspicious, a master delegator and capable of making an investigative breakthrough with a mouthful of Victoria sponge. She delivers almost every line as though she is giving someone a stern telling off – albeit one softened by liberal use of the words “love” and “pet”, even when she’s dealing with her suspects.
Too obvious was the memorably named Pat Cringle, the woman who had apparently waged a war on Lucy’s reputation after the death of her mother.hit all the Sunday night procedural beats you would expect: an unpleasant murder but nothing too gruesome, plenty of dodgy peripheral characters, the odd red herring and a web of secrets and lies, half of which turn out to be nothing to do with the crime at all.
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